Abbas Jamalipour
Candidate's Statement
The Communications Society is recognized by having a large number of active members and organizing some of the most prestigious engineering conferences and journals. But we must continually search for new ways to enhance service to members to keep that recognition. I have been trying to do my share by improving the quality and availability of publications for members in conferences that I chaired and also in the capacity of Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. These have resulted in some breakthrough achievements such as taking the magazine to the top of the journal citations ranking list and enhancing the quality of ComSoc’s flagship conferences.
If elected, I will promote a fair-to-all and fast review processing system for paper publication. Knowing the importance of active collaboration among academia and industry, I will press for industry-oriented meetings and publications to further strengthen the industry-academia link. My other objective will be to make ComSoc flexible enough to adopt new technologies like on-line facilities for members’ benefit quickly, removing long bureaucratic procedures.
Biography
Abbas Jamalipour has been on the faculty of Sydney University, Australia, since 1998. He holds a Ph.D. from Nagoya University, Japan. He has authored/co-authored seven books, over 180 journal/conference papers, and holds two patents. Professor Jamalipour is Fellow of IEEE and IEAust, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, and Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Wireless Communications. He has 19 years of industry and academia experience in the field.
Within ComSoc, Abbas was Chair of Satellite & Space Communications (2004-06); Vice Chair of Communications Switching & Routing; and Chair of the Chapters Coordination Committee Asia/Pacific Board. He is a Technical Editor of IEEE Communications Magazine, GITC voting member, and IEEE WCNC Steering Committee member. Abbas has been Vice-Chair of WCNC 2003-06, Chair of IEEE GLOBECOM’05 (Wireless Communications), and Symposium Co-Chair at ICC 2005-08, and IEEE GLOBECOM 2006-2008, among many others.
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